#318 — Physics & Philosophy

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Tim Maudlin about the foundations of physics and metaphysics. They talk about the nature of scientific reductionism, emergence, functionalism, the nature of time, presentism vs eternalism, causation, the nature of possibility, the laws of nature, David Lewis’s possible worlds, rival interpretations of quantum mechanics, free will, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
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0:46.8	Well the big story of this week was the firing of Tucker Carlson from Fox News.
0:53.2	I normally wouldn't have much to say about this, but this has been such an enormous story,
0:59.0	at least for those of us who follow media, and everyone has commented on it, it seems.
1:06.7	But no one has made what I consider to be the most important point about all of this.
1:13.1	So I feel like I have something to add to this conversation, which is otherwise an extraordinarily
1:18.3	boring one.
1:20.0	I don't know Tucker.
1:21.6	I believe we've met twice.
1:24.2	I think he interviewed me twice.
1:25.4	He was one of my first TV interviews.
1:28.4	I don't even know what show that was back in the day.
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